
“The most general survey shows us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two.
… This is the world of our individual and collective minds. Stories and meanings connect this world. History is a story; the future is a story — memories are shaped by meaning; hopes are shaped by meaning. And it’s this second world that makes the first world rich and granular — that adds color where there is otherwise only an outline.
Imagine how they dress, how they style their hair. Imagine how they write emails, how they handle conflict, or how productive they are. Take the macro and make it micro: imagine your whole, full, completely ascended self, and then figure out how they would handle the minutiae of your life.